History, class 8

This is the cleanest vintage-matched pair in the study: Punjab's History 8 is SNC-2022 and KP's was approved on 16-07-2022 under an SNC-2022 NOC, so the difference cannot be explained away as legacy material. Both carry their board's whole colonial and Pakistan Movement narrative for the 6–8 sequence. Punjab's five chapters run the arrival of the British, reform movements, a full World Wars chapter — the only one in the corpus — political awakening, and Pakistan from 1947. KP's runs 1857, Sir Syed, the Lahore Resolution, Kashmir and 1971 onward. The divergence is A4: Punjab 5 against KP 3. Punjab gives 1971 six sentences with India as sole agent, no surrender named and no Pakistani decision-maker, then leaps to the Afghan War and six named army operations ending at Radd-ul-Fassad 2017, with no Bhutto, no Zia, no Musharraf and no post-1971 civilian politics. KP's runs to the 2022 no-confidence vote with Bhutto, Zia, Nawaz and Imran all present, plus CPEC and the 2014 APS attack, and is the most current history text in the corpus. It is also the only Urdu book here with recoverable institutional civics — Senate, National Assembly, right to vote, Eighth Amendment — lifting A2 to 3. Punjab scores A5 5 on the 1965 army "filled with the spirit of Jihad" (p.87), and is double-natured: pp.68–69 carry a "Role of Minorities in the Establishment of Pakistan" section naming Satya Parkash Singha and Jogendra Nath Mandal, while p.65 states "Hindus would never provide justice to Muslims". KP's file is Urdu OCR and its A6 register is explicitly unresolved between bands 3 and 4; two absences are editorial rather than artefacts, since the names would survive degraded script — no Bacha Khan, no Khudai Khidmatgars, no Qissa Khwani Bazaar in a KP board's own history. Written to the same curriculum in the same year, Punjab's history stops criticising Pakistan in 1971 and KP's carries on to 2022.